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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. In 2008 NASA awarded contracts to Space X and Orbital Sciences to transport cargo to the ISS. It invested more in external communication.

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business

For example, right after Sanja Jha was appointed head of Motorola’s mobile devices unit in 2008, he immediately took control of the portfolio, cutting the firm’s entire Symbian product line and focusing the firm on fewer products and the Android platform. Vertical hierarchies are much more efficient at processing information.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business

Automated blockchain triggers and enforcements might have even helped entire nations avoid humanitarian disasters caused by economic transactions, such as the milk scandal of 2008 which claimed 300,000 victims, dis-incenting the use of forced child labor, or managing recent threats from ISIS to poison the European food supply.